Speaker: Tetsuro Mizutani (Virginia Tech)
Title:	Open Charm (D) Mesons in Nuclear Matter at Finite Temperature

Abstract: Spectral properties of open charm mesons (D and D bar) in 
finite temperature nuclear matter are studied within a self-consistent 
coupled-channel scheme. A broken SU(4) extended s-wave Tomozawa-Weinberg 
type interaction was adopted for the two-body meson-baryon interactions 
by means of a vector meson exchange picture. The in-medium effects 
included are Pauli blocking, baryon mean field binding, pion and D-meson 
self energies. In the DN sector two s-wave charmed baryon resonances, 
generated in free space, are modified in nuclear matter at finite density 
and temperature. The resulting D meson in-medium width spread to lower 
energies due to coupling to charmed baryon resonance-nucleon hole states 
in combination with temperature-spread nucleon Fermi sea. We discuss its
possible effect in relativistic heavy ion collisions, in particular for 
the future experiment at FAIR (GSI).